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CPC Fellow Aiello receives Hogue Mid Career Award
June 25, 2019This text was originally published on the NC TraCS website. Allison E. Aiello, PhD, Director of the Integrating Special Populations Program at the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences (NC TraCS) Institute and Professor of Epidemiology at the Gillings School of Global Public Health, will receive the Carol J. Rowland Hogue Award for Outstanding Mid-Career…
MEASURE Evaluation: USAID Awards UNC $36 Million to Support Malaria Control and Elimination
June 18, 2019The “Strengthening Surveillance, Monitoring, and Evaluation for Malaria Control and Elimination (Malaria SM&E)” program just awarded for $36 million by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). This piece was originally published on measureevaluation.org. CHAPEL HILL, NC—A malaria-focused program just awarded—“Strengthening Surveillance, Monitoring, and Evaluation for Malaria Control and Elimination (Malaria SM&E)”—will provide $36…
Predoctoral trainee Iliya Gutin receives IAPHS Student Award
June 18, 2019The award recognizes “work of notable quality, potential, and/or likely impact on the field completed by a student in the population health sciences." Iliya Gutin, a doctoral candidate in sociology and a predoctoral trainee at the Carolina Population Center, received the 2019 Student Award from the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science (IAPHS). Gutin’s current…
How does exposure to extreme weather affect both people and places over time?
June 18, 2019An interdisciplinary team including several CPC Fellows has received a UNC Creativity Hub Pilot Award to investigate the long-term impact of storms Climate change is generating more frequent and more powerful extreme weather events along the Eastern seaboard and Gulf Coast. These extreme events – hurricanes, forest fires, floods - cause damage to the natural…
Obituary: Betty Cogswell
May 18, 2019Obituary for Betty Cogswell: 1930-2019 Burlington, NC Dr. Cogswell was a Faculty Affiliate of the Carolina Population Center beginning in 1971. In 1977, when the Center began the Fellows Program, Dr. Cogswell was elected as a Faculty Fellow and would continue to serve as Fellow Emeritus after her retirement in 1997. She was the Director…
Demography Daze: May 13
May 7, 2019May 7, 2019 The annual Demography Daze event is a collaboration between UNC's Carolina Population Center and Duke University's Population Research Institute.Demography Daze13 May 2019Carolina Population Center2002 Carolina Square 1-2:15: Bridget Goosby"It Takes a Village: What Interdisciplinarity and Biosocial Methods tell us about Health Disparities" 2:15-2:25: Break 2:25-3:55: Session 1 Intergenerational Fitness Effects of Early Adversity…
CPC Fellow Harris elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
April 30, 2019Apr 30, 2019 Kathleen Mullan Harris has received the prestigious honor of being elected into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Harris is a Carolina Population Center Faculty Fellow and is UNC's James Haar Distinguished Professor of Sociology. The American Academy of Arts & Sciences issued this announcement New 2019 Academy Members Announced. UNC's…
Kathleen Mullan Harris awarded Population Association of America’s Irene B. Taeuber Award
April 25, 2019Apr 25, 2019 Kathleen Mullan Harris, PhD, is the first Faculty Fellow at Carolina Population Center to receive the Population Association of America's Irene B. Taeuber Award in "recognition of an unusually original or important contribution to the scientific study of population" and "an accumulated record of exceptionally sound and innovative research." Dr. Harris received…
CPC at PAA 2019
March 20, 2019Mar 20, 2019 The Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America will be held April 10-13 at the JW Marriott Austin. Listed below are the sessions presented by CPC Faculty Fellows, postdoctoral scholars, predoctoral and undergraduate trainees, and staff members. Names of Faculty Fellows are linked to their CPC profile pages. The PAA 2019…
New website launched for exploring global tuberculosis (TB) data
March 20, 2019Mar 20, 2019 WASHINGTON, DC-The Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Mark Green, is launching a new tuberculosis (TB) data hub today in Washington, DC. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) is playing a large role. TB data from 23 USAID priority TB countries and global TB data…